Keywords
Órdenes mendicantes femeninas, clarisas, dominicas, reinas de Castilla, mujeres de corte, mecenazgo femenino, Female mendicant orders, poor Clares, Dominicans, Queens of Castile and ladies of court, female patronage
Queens, Infantas and Court Ladies at the Origin of Castilian Mendicant Nuns (c. 1222-1316). Spiritual Sponsorship and Female Religious Movement
Abstract
El establecimiento inicial de las órdenes mendicantes femeninas en la Corona de Castilla constituyó un fenómeno complejo en el que la participación de variados agentes sociopolíticos con intereses diversos se superpuso a una doble problemática: los largos procesos de definición canónica de un modelo mendicante femenino, especialmente arduos en el caso clariano-franciscano, y la tensión carisma-institución, una de cuyas manifestaciones fue la institucionalización de comunidades femeninas no regladas. En el trasfondo, las distintas formas de manifestación de lo que la historiografía ha denominado movimiento religioso femenino , marco generador de las religiosas mendicantes. Las reinas y mujeres del círculo regio y cortesano no fueron las primeras ni las únicas involucradas, pero el hecho de dedicarles estas páginas obedece al interés por valorar la naturaleza de su implicación en dicha movilización religiosa y en las nuevas corrientes de espiritualidad femenina que la alimentaron.
The initial establishment of female mendicant orders in the Crown of Castile was a complex phenomenon in which the participation of various socio-political agents with diverse interests superimposed on a double problem: the lengthy processes of canonical definition of a female mendicant model, especially difficult for the Clarist-Franciscan case, and the tension between charisma and institution, one of the expressions of which was the institutionalisation of non-regulated female communities. In the background, were the different expressions of what historiography has called the "female religious movement" and the framework that brought about mendicant nuns. Queens and women belonging to the royal and courtly circle were not the first nor the only ones involved, but devoting these pages to them arises from the interest in appraising the nature of their implication in that religious mobilisation and in the new trends of female spirituality that nurtured it.
The initial establishment of female mendicant orders in the Crown of Castile was a complex phenomenon in which the participation of various socio-political agents with diverse interests superimposed on a double problem: the lengthy processes of canonical definition of a female mendicant model, especially difficult for the Clarist-Franciscan case, and the tension between charisma and institution, one of the expressions of which was the institutionalisation of non-regulated female communities. In the background, were the different expressions of what historiography has called the "female religious movement" and the framework that brought about mendicant nuns. Queens and women belonging to the royal and courtly circle were not the first nor the only ones involved, but devoting these pages to them arises from the interest in appraising the nature of their implication in that religious mobilisation and in the new trends of female spirituality that nurtured it.
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